Gorget
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A gorget is a band of linen that was wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the medieval period or the lower part of a simple chaperon hood. The term later described a steel or leather collar to pr
The gorget in this 1772 portrait of Colonel George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, was worn in the French and Indian War to show his rank as an officer in the Virginia Regiment.
Elaborately decorated gilt-brass gorget of c. 1630, probably Dutch
The Gleninsheen gold gorget, Irish Bronze Age, National Museum of Ireland
German military police gorget from World War II
Feldgendarmerie
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The term Feldgendarmerie refers to military police units of the armies of the Kingdom of Saxony, the German Empire and Nazi Germany up to the end of World War II in Europe.
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…military and Nazi Party organisations, mainly units with a police function and their flag bearers. During World War II, it continued to be used by Feldgendarmerie (military field police), who wore metal gorgets as emblems of authority. German police gorgets of this period typically took the form of flat metal…
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Deutsche Feldgendarmerie in Neu-Sandec Frühjahr 1915
Feldgendarmerie operating in occupied Russia, July 1941. The sign says "Partisanen-Gefahr von Welish nach Ußwjati. Einzelfahrzeuge halt! Waffen bereithalten." / "Partisan danger from Velizh to Usvyaty. Single vehicles Stop! Weapons at the ready."